maiden-auntish

comparative more maiden-auntish · superlative most maiden-auntish

1. Having stereotypical characteristics of an elderly unmarried aunt; straight-laced, old-fashioned, etc.

   The smell was of camphor, maiden-auntish:

   2009, Sarah Waters, chapter 9, in The Little Stranger, Toronto: McClelland & Stewart, page 293

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   […] the literary world […] is a world so prissy, maiden-auntish; so class-bound;

   1962, Doris Lessing, The Golden Notebook, New York: Bantam, published 1979, page 154